Relationships

It’s really all about relationships. I mean, organizing takes a lot of effort, especially if you’re keeping track of people, their interests and events. It’s just hard to get anything done without that. Customer relationship management tool can make a huge difference. CRM tools like fluentCRM, which is the tool that we use here that works with WordPress, it can help you maintain connections and track engagement and build a better network. And this guy kind of will help you understand why these tools are very useful for organizing our outreach and just how you can use it as well. First of all, it helps you centralize your contacts.

You know, if you’ve been doing some of these exercises, you’ve probably been dealing with a lot of contact information. Like you’ve got maybe more than one spreadsheet by now. This is going to help you centralize that information and avoid … Read more

Mobilizing To Organizing

We talked earlier about trigger events. I want to go from trigger events to this broader idea of mobilizing. You know, when a trigger event happens, something happens in the news that I can’t predict in a recorded conversation, right? And there’s. There’s just a lot of energy. Mobilizing people and taking advantage of that is a big and important step. When you are making noise and demanding attention, that is powerful.

But however, as powerful as that kind of one off mobilizing can be, it is only the beginning. If we want that to last, we need to move from mobilizing to organizing. And the book no Shortcuts, Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age discusses this in depth. When we talk about mobilizing, we’re talking about energy. We’re marching at City hall, chanting in the streets, rallying around a cause. You’re handing out a petition. This is … Read more

Mobilizing

We talked earlier about trigger events. I want to go from trigger events to this broader idea of mobilizing. You know, when a trigger event happens, something happens in the news that I can’t predict in a recorded conversation, right? And there’s. There’s just a lot of energy. Mobilizing people and taking advantage of that is a big and important step. When you are making noise and demanding attention, that is powerful.

But however, as powerful as that kind of one off mobilizing can be, it is only the beginning. If we want that to last, we need to move from mobilizing to organizing. And the book no Shortcuts, Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age discusses this in depth. When we talk about mobilizing, we’re talking about energy. We’re marching at City hall, chanting in the streets, rallying around a cause. You’re handing out a petition. This is … Read more